Since Square didn't bother to release ANYTHING for the PSX in Europe apart from your usual FFs (lol but no tactics), PS2 wins by default. I had more RPGs on my Sega Saturn, for fuck's sake.

There were other JRPG folk who released their games in PAL regions. Yes, we did miss out on Chrono Cross, Final Fantasy Tactics (well...we have it now) and Xenogears, but we did get many other non-Square RPGs. There are other awesome RPGs out there.

The only RPGs I remember when I used to get the UK OPM were Vandal Hearts, Breath of Fire III, Wild Arms and unmemorable stuff like Azure Dreams... Yeah, it turns out a handful of the so-called classics did come out eventually, a year after NA, in 2000, but are so hard to find that I only found out PAL Suikoden II and Star Ocean 2 existed fairly recently. The exception to this would be Grandia, Ubisoft did a good job of actually making copies of that. :P

But regardless, the European RPG player will have a decidedly different opinion of the PSX, and this discrepancy has been minimalised with the PS2.

One of those is not enough to make me want to play another game, but a combination of those factors will usually make me lose interest. That's why I enjoyed Legend of Mana and Romancing Saga, but not Oblivion.

Not that I like all of the things asociated with Japanese RPGs. At the moment I have zero interest in playing future Final Fantasies.

Kara's pet pig sacrifices itself to the starving tribe to save our lives. That was horrible. Oddly enough, I was momentarily stunned when the Jackal burned to death in front of me as well, even though he was my enemy. Burning to death is a scary concept, as are dying pets.

I had almost forgotten about Illusion of Gaia.

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Most of Will's friends died too. That game was actually extremely dark. Like how you have to turn in that slave to the slave trader if you want the red jewel. Or the part where you have to play that russian drinking game and the loser commits suicide.

So what kind of girl eyecandy do you want to see in a JRPG? Do you want some Inuyasha looking charcter, or those beefcake Cho-Akinies, or a straight up bishe Sephiroth style, or a burning spirit hot-blooded character like Kamina, or are you looking for something else like a harem protagonist or something?

Nothing over the top for me, though I can't exactly speak for everyone (Inu Yasha is extremely popular after all). Guy from Tales of the Abyss was nice to look at and it's always fun when characters have multiple outfits.

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for me the most annoying character by far is Sophia fucking -Esteed in star ocean 3. ever since the first time i heard "it looks like i'm improving" i wanted to rip my ears off,and banished her from my party forever.

About Shion, I could handle the emo thing, it's all the details I had problems with. Like in the beginning of the first game, with the e-mail explaining thingy. She's supposed to be incredibly smart and that device wasn't even worthy of a tutorial.

Isn't that the game designer's fault?

Isn't everything the game designer's fault? Shion's reaction to the tutorial made her look stupid.

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Because she's a girl, and girls do stupid diets.

Not all do and I doubt she was supposed to be insecure enough to consider a diet.

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Character designer's fault.

Everything can be traced back to the people who actually made the game, that doesn't make it less annoying.

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You're playing a JRPG and complaining about it being sexist?

In this case it was so obvious it was stupid. And like I said, if the guys get eyecandy, girls should get eyecandy too.

Oh, I've knotted worked with splitted embroidery threads, which is pretty insane. I'm surprised I didn't ruin my eyesight. If the design is good enough, I'm willing to try it again. I'll see what I can do with the Tetris Heart.

About Shion, I could handle the emo thing, it's all the details I had problems with. Like in the beginning of the first game, with the e-mail explaining thingy. She's supposed to be incredibly smart and that device wasn't even worthy of a tutorial. And the apple diet she considered. She's already a stick figure with boobs, why the hell would she even consider a diet?! I also hate half of her hairstyles, too childish. And, she looked like a slut in Xenosaga 3. Then again, I thought the Vector uniforms were incredibly sexist. Men get overalls, women get miniskirts. Mankind sure has progressed a lot in 2000 years. If you're going the fanservice route, atleast give the girls something to look at too. Not-really-minors and old cyborgs aren't exactly my cup of tea.